You needed to get close to the man to understand diplomacy
BY: ARUTI KANYINGA I must admit it is difficult to pen a tribute to someone who has just passed on. It is difficult to do so especially if the person was central to your life, career, and outlook in life. And it is not about whether the person has ‘passed on’ or ‘passed away’. It […]
Imran Khan wears an uneasy crown
By becoming the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, the cricketer legend who won the 1992 World Cup for Pakistan, has surprised quite a few.
BY: Qazi Naveed Ajaz For the ardent followers of Imran Khan in Pakistan and in the Diaspora, this might be the happiest day of their lives. It is because Khan has come a long way, from being the finest all-around players in Pakistan’s cricketing history to becoming Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister. Imran Khan’s historic win […]
MENACE OF SPURIOUS, SUB-STANDARD DRUGS
When system fails to safeguard the masses, the masses must play extra conscious!
By: Dr.Tasaduk Hussain Itoo The proliferation of spurious drug is a serious problem as drugs are essential components of the health care. The recovery of ailing patients from illness is directly related to the quality of drugs they consume. In the state of Jammu & Kashmir, the menace of spurious drugs is growing as an […]
The man with many faces
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018)
By: Sankarshan Thakur He had gone from our midst long before his appointed departure, an insistent, genial, and very often brilliant presence shrivelled to the irreversible demands of time, defying expiry yet relentlessly fading away behind the high barricading of his bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi. The last most of us saw of him was in […]
Khan vs Bhutto
By: Amir Hussain Pakistan has produced few political figures of an iconoclastic status who have been able to articulate a political discourse of transformation in the popular idiom. A popular movement spread across the country in the 1970s that was contrary to the conventional elitism which had hitherto shaped the political landscape. The popular appeal […]
India As Lynchistan, Frightening and Disheartening
Back to the basics
By: MADHAV GODBOLE Mob lynching has emerged as a formidable threat to the image of India as a civilised country. India has truly become Lynchistan, rather than Hindustan, as some protagonists of the Hindutva cause would like it to be. Suspected cow smugglers, child lifters, black magic practitioners, and innocent, law-abiding people have become the […]
Lessons in alternative histories
Both Gandhi and Nehru would have grasped that the Dalai Lama was speaking to India’s present
By: Shiv Visvanathan Around August 15 every year, Indians tend to get more correct and prickly. The 15th is a precious day for us. We demand a salute to our state and status as a great independent nation. Any critique is summarily dismissed, often at the cost to our own understanding of the nation and […]
Death of a dictator
Zia’s martial law was unprecedented in its ferocity.
By: Mahir Ali WORKING in a Dubai newsroom, one was accustomed to receiving bizarre phone calls on Thursday nights. It was the beginning of the weekend, and in the pre-internet era there were invariably a few expats who got their kicks by calling up newspaper offices to propagate rumours. The tall tales could usually be […]
My mulk at 71
In my film, I tried to deal with the issues of social harmony that have been on my mind for three decades. As Indians, we must ask these questions, even if there is no single answer.
By: Anubhav Sinha Independence Day is probably the most significant day in the history of modern India. On August 15, 1947, at the stroke of midnight, India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced India’s freedom from British rule. A new country was born when most of us were not even born. We were to […]
The danger of conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
Enfolding criticism of Israel within the definition of anti-Semitism would risk rendering the word meaningless.
By: Ian Almond I still remember the shock I felt when, at the age of 12, my teacher told me the word “joo” I had just spoken, which I had thought to mean to lie or cheat, was actually “Jew” and was anti-Semitic. Throughout my British childhood, I had used that word casually and frequently, […]
